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Filesystems, disks, storage systems, backups, synchronization, and digital preservation.

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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

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Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs↗ github.com · HN · 271 comments · 510 points · Jun 22, 2026
πFS↗ github.com · HN · 206 comments · 963 points · Jun 10, 2026
Flipdiscs↗ flipdisc.io · HN · 91 comments · 569 points · Apr 23, 2026
Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others↗ rareese.com · HN · 693 comments · 1130 points · Apr 14, 2026
Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem↗ jai.scs.stanford.edu · HN · 329 comments · 635 points · Mar 28, 2026
20251,240 stories
Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data↗ xda-developers.com · HN · 329 comments · 770 points · Nov 24, 2025
Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs↗ guru3d.com · HN · 667 comments · 1037 points · Oct 08, 2025
Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move↗ servethehome.com · HN · 403 comments · 653 points · Apr 19, 2025
An intro to DeepSeek's distributed file system↗ maknee.github.io · HN · 108 comments · 623 points · Apr 17, 2025
Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024↗ backblaze.com · HN · 205 comments · 646 points · Feb 11, 2025
20241,242 stories
Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 320 comments · 587 points · Nov 18, 2024
ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives↗ docs.sweeting.me · HN · 156 comments · 669 points · Oct 16, 2024
Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance↗ memories.gallery · HN · 230 comments · 797 points · Mar 21, 2024
S3 is files, but not a filesystem↗ calpaterson.com · HN · 430 comments · 571 points · Mar 10, 2024
Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative↗ ente.io · HN · 327 comments · 964 points · Mar 02, 2024
20231,243 stories
FUSE-T is a kext-less implementation of FUSE for macOS that uses NFSv4↗ github.com · HN · 68 comments · 213 points · Dec 26, 2023
A data corruption bug in OpenZFS?↗ despairlabs.com · HN · 111 comments · 220 points · Dec 26, 2023
2TB microSD card is on the way early next year↗ overkill.wtf · HN · 176 comments · 121 points · Dec 23, 2023
Ask HN: Best modern file transfer/synchronization protocol?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 58 comments · 70 points · Dec 22, 2023
CDC File Transfer↗ github.com · HN · 12 comments · 79 points · Jan 08, 2023
20221,268 stories
LiteFS↗ fly.io · HN · 154 comments · 648 points · Sep 21, 2022
SSD will fail at 40k power-on hours (2021)↗ cisco.com · HN · 254 comments · 723 points · Jul 10, 2022
Useless Use of "dd" (2015)↗ vidarholen.net · HN · 252 comments · 395 points · May 23, 2022
What are your most used self-hosted applications?↗ noted.lol · HN · 446 comments · 736 points · May 04, 2022
I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLUSH’d data on power loss↗ twitter.com · HN · 397 comments · 797 points · Feb 21, 2022
20211,058 stories
We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem↗ heap.io · HN · 311 comments · 654 points · Nov 09, 2021
Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 405 comments · 1180 points · Aug 29, 2021
Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility↗ github.com · HN · 201 comments · 589 points · May 07, 2021
All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk↗ brianschrader.com · HN · 696 comments · 1345 points · Mar 25, 2021
Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook↗ twitter.com · HN · 516 comments · 1064 points · Mar 22, 2021
20201,274 stories
Modern storage is plenty fast, but the APIs are bad↗ itnext.io · HN · 160 comments · 512 points · Nov 26, 2020
BTFS – mount any .torrent file or magnet link as directory↗ github.com · HN · 121 comments · 510 points · Jun 19, 2020
Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 228 comments · 726 points · May 07, 2020
Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording↗ blocksandfiles.com · HN · 305 comments · 719 points · Apr 15, 2020
Linus: Don't Use ZFS↗ realworldtech.com · HN · 555 comments · 572 points · Jan 09, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Saving another 100TB of RAM↗ blog.cloudflare.com · HN · 123 comments · 488 points · Sep 18, 2026
I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB↗ mouse.dev · HN · 170 comments · 355 points · Sep 22, 2026
Backups Aren't Simple↗ filipovski.net · HN · 224 comments · 359 points · Sep 16, 2026
Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite↗ withcapsule.app · HN · 167 comments · 380 points · Sep 15, 2026
Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip↗ bartosz.fenski.pl · HN · 190 comments · 179 points · Sep 19, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

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Highest rated · the last 30 days

Saving another 100TB of RAM↗ blog.cloudflare.com · HN · 123 comments · 488 points · Sep 18, 2026
Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite↗ withcapsule.app · HN · 167 comments · 380 points · Sep 15, 2026
Backups Aren't Simple↗ filipovski.net · HN · 224 comments · 359 points · Sep 16, 2026
I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB↗ mouse.dev · HN · 170 comments · 355 points · Sep 22, 2026
uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache↗ github.com · HN · 121 comments · 231 points · Aug 31, 2026
M-DISC – DVD/Blu-ray compatible discs that may last up to 1000 years↗ en.wikipedia.org · HN · 104 comments · 207 points · Sep 02, 2026
Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip↗ bartosz.fenski.pl · HN · 190 comments · 179 points · Sep 19, 2026
FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued↗ freecore.org · HN · 104 comments · 177 points · Aug 30, 2026
Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead↗ gist.github.com · HN · 251 comments · 151 points · Sep 08, 2026
DeepSeek-v4.1 Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression↗ zartbot.github.io · HN · 10 comments · 131 points · Sep 17, 2026

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